History FanFic / CallofDarkness

* ActionGirl: Most, if not all female members of the Arcadia Movement are this. Also consider that their most famous members include, but not limited to: (canonically) Izayoi Aki (Akiza Izinski), or the formerly AxCrazy Black Rose Witch. Aki also gave birth to Ryuusei Fudo, who's a lot like her except more powerful. Plus:

* SubmissiveBadass: Kaido. Nakamura Iemitsu. Arguments could be made for Yukio.

!This fic provides examples of:

* '''BadAss'''
** LittleMissBadass: Seika and Setsuka both carry this trope. Setsuka managed the Arcadia Movement with an iron fist from age twelve to eighteen, and even empowered it. Seika took over and then proceeded to [[spoiler: charge into a battlefield of Duel Spirits despite having no Psychic powers and no weapons except for her Duel Disk]].
** BadassBookworm: Kaido Ariyashi is a short bespectacled man who rarely leaves headquarters, since he mostly monitors the archives and the accounting departments of the Arcadia Movement. He's also a Class IV Psychic with the unique ability of sight-{{psychometry}}: i.e. ''reading your entire life history by looking at you''. He can also fight if pressed, and once nearly burned the face off someone for not respecting Seika. While reciting the principles of the UN Declaration for the Rights of the Child, and pointing out that he could justifiably murder the guy and his comrades for that.

** BadassFamily: Diana Hunter, or Madam Seiran Shimotsuki, is a Psychic Duelist who is still respected ten years after her death. She also killed over 200 gang members in an event which would be known as the White Witch Massacre. Rafael is, canonically, the only guy who has ever managed to corner and defeat the [[Anime/YuGiOh Pharaoh]]. Both of them got married, and it resulted in Setsuka Shimotsuki.

** SubmissiveBadass: Kaido. Nakamura Iemitsu. Arguments could be made for Yukio.
** AwesomeAussie: Jimmy Cook, or James Crocodile Cook II, is Australian. He is also badass enough to attempt to take Setsuka with him ''to the death''. Granted, it was more of a fool-in-love sort of thing, and he failed, but you've got to give him points for effort. He tried, and arguably would have succeeded if Setsuka didn't jump in and stop him.
** BadassInANiceSuit: Happens quite a few times. Helps that the Arcadia Movement likes to dress its members up in undercover assignments that require socialisation. This is so important that in the first arc, there was serious debate as to what to wear to a war.

** BadassDuo: Chase and Youkai meet an Evilswarm Thanatos running full speed at them. Chase distracts it by making like a bullfighter, and Youkai prepares to drive a knife into the side of the horse, instead of running away. ''Before'' that, they deal with a Grinder Golem and a Lava Golem.
** BadassArmy: Can be argued for the revamped Arcadia Movement. Archie O'Brien (son of Austin O'Brien, also GX fame) called them 'a small militia'. The entire Movement faced off against the attack of the Despair of the Dark, some members survived Duelist Kingdom, and all were very calm when Ryuusei began fighting his way out of the Arcadia Movement's Castle.
*** It gets overblown by people who don't know all the details. In the Duelist Kingdom, a team of elite Duel Corps from West Academia were defeated by the Winter Queen, but about ten Psychics led by Seika succeeded in gathering the remaining sixty Duelists still running around to charge the castle and rescue the hostages. Of course, they failed to discount that this was part of a BatmanGambit by Setsuka, and that Setsuka never intended to kill every Duelist on the island, but the fact that about ten people did what an entire contingent of about twenty hardened Duelist soldiers couldn't made the Arcadia Movement seem even more awesome to terrified plebeians more than it actually was.
* BatmanGambit: The third head of the Arcadia Movement and the current Winter Queen, Setsuka Shimotsuki, is fond of this trope.

** BadassBookworm: Kaido Ariyashi is a short bespectacled man who rarely leaves headquarters, since he mostly monitors the archives and the accounting departments of the Arcadia Movement. He's also a Class IV Psychic with the unique ability of sight-psychometry: i.e. ''reading your entire life history by looking at you''. He can also fight if pressed, and once nearly burned the face off someone for not respecting Seika. While reciting the principles of the UN Declaration for the Rights of the Child, and pointing out that he could justifiably murder the guy and his comrades for that.

** In the first arc, Seika received ''Number 39: King of Wishes, Hope'' (or Utopia, for those playing TCG). It soon became one of her most-seen aces. This card is slated to be important in the future, what with Setsuka relating a story about the Numbers and their relation to [[SealedEvilInACan Pandora's Box]].

* WickedCultured: Chase makes references to a host of media. Ryuusei protests his laptop being called [[Literature/HowlsMovingCastle Calcifer]]. Seika ponders about the colloquialisms made by Americans. Setsuka is canonically proven to be a reader of TerryPratchett, and even emulates a certain [[{{Literature/Discworld}} benevolent dictator]]. Her office was even referred to as the Oblong Office by Chase, and she quotes that benevolent dictator sometimes.

Unlike the full first-person view of Infernity Mirage, which details the better part of two years in Duel Academia Kings, and Boss Rush, which takes on the eventful first year that led to the opening of Fanfic/CallOfDarkness two years later, Fanfic/CallOfDarkness is told in two points of view.

Summary: Chase Princeton here. It's been a few years since my best friend and not-really-mortal-enemy disappeared. The Movement's run ragged chasing missing people, and the world's getting weirder. The only thing I can do... well, I can see spirits. It's a start.

'''Arc the First: Mythological Age''', is starting from the prologue (Chapter 0) and covering up to Chapter 21, or XXI. It covers the disappearances of Psychics, attacking Duel Spirits, WeatherDissonance, weird activities, and TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt brewing on the horizon.

'''Arc the Second: Struggle of Chaos''', covers Chapter XXII to XLI (22 to 41). Armageddon being averted and Ryuusei returned to the mortal plane, all is not well as the Movement is lured onto Duelist Kingdom Island under the guise of a tournament, and then literally found themselves Dueling for their lives with the cohorts of various Duel Academias, including Seika's classmates and Chase's alma mater. There is a castle siege, a jailbreak, and in the end someone dies. Though, the Movement rescues them!

'''Arc the Third: Labyrinth of Nightmare''' (XLII to LXI, 42 to 61) has been concluded as of 30 June 2013. It starts off with a Batman Cold Open and gradually devolves to a rerun of the KC Grand Prix that led to the setting up of a BatmanGambit by Ryuusei to frame and ultimately kill an anti-Psychic attorney. Features a FaceHeelTurn, as Ryuusei faces the MoralEventHorizon and finally succumbs to the curse that follows the rulers of Summer and Winter.

'''Arc the Fourth: Thousand-Eyes Bible''' is currently ongoing. It is the last arc, covering LXI to the Epilogue (62 to 76), and it looks like something else could open on its tail!

!This show provides examples of:

* ActionGirl: Most, if not all female members of the Arcadia Movement are this. Also consider that their most famous members include, but not limited to: (canonically) Izayoi Aki, or the formerly AxCrazy Black Rose Witch. Aki also gave birth to Ryuusei Fudo, who's a lot like her except more powerful. Plus:

** Michiru Tenjouin, Setsuka's ''friend'' /minion and a Fabled Duelist. She managed to pull a draw with Rex Atlas, against Scar-Red Nova Dragon.
** The Winter champion, Satsuki Kujaku. She won against her master and grandmaster, the Black Feather user Crow Hogan and her grandfather Katsuya Jounochi, who are both known ace Duelists.
** The new Summer champion, [[spoiler: Kaiba Kisara]], who skydived from an airplane without a parachute and was rescued by three Blue-Eyes White Dragons that she summoned in mid-air. For a lark.

*** So far, there are a lot of strong female characters, despite Duel Monsters, by its nature being a testosterone-laden field.

* BadAss

** Setsuka. Though she's the Winter Queen, you have to consider what this means to a girl who's still essentially eighteen. She's been isolated all her life because of her incredible power and intelligence, which makes her a capable ruler, but also hardly sociable. Or normal for any given value of the word. It becomes something like TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask when we compare Seika and Setsuka and realise that, where Seika had to face the current challenges of the Movement but wwith adult help, Setsuka had to battle discrimination for ten years without family support, dissent from her own family, assassination attempts, and at a time far worse than what Seika could ever face. Though we give her points for being a {{Determinator}} about the whole thing.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Hazuki and Uzuki are redheads, Setsuka and Seika are brunettes. Satsuki is blonde, by virtue of having Katsuya Jounochi and Mai Kujaku as her grandparents. Michiru has brown-black hair, when she doesn't bother to dye it.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Direct quote: "Good and evil are human concepts, and so cannot apply to those who are not human."

*** Thoroughly debunked.

* ComesGreatPerks: Debatable. The perk of powers don't seem to be really worth the number of enemies you seem to make in this universe, or the trouble you'll get into. Either you're looked down on society, or you have to fight off psychic-haters, or a Duel Spirit might enslave you and make you do morally questionable stuff, and might even outright kill you ForTheEvulz. Then again, you could have a cool job in quasi-legal law enforcement and bridging the various Arcadia Movements worldwide.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: What Setsuka wrecked on Kiyoshi. The details weren't written, but by the end of it, Kiyoshi was a living scrimshaw and tattoo exhibit, his body wasted, and already insane, having lost all higher-order capabilities. The third arc showed that he had to be left in a medically induced coma to relieve his pain. Yukio might actually have been on to something there...

** And Seika, to some degree. I mean, how many can claim to be the leader of what is effectively fifty thousand WMDs or tanks across a whole city, and even more across the globe? Of course, there's also that pesky matter of being ''in charge'' as a minor...
* CutenessOverload: Himemiya Uzuki uses a Madolche deck. They look like cute little buggers until you realise that being clobbered by a giant fork, a teapot or the Puddingcess's shoes hurts. And, Uzuki fights ''dirty''.
** A minor character acknowledges this by saying that while the Madolche may look cute, a weapon is a weapon, and a ton of plush soldiers beating you to death with candy-cane swords is not a dignified way to go. He also said that the Puddingcess has a nasty habit of stomping nuts. We presume he didn't mean things like walnuts.

** [[spoiler: Surprisingly, [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Evilswarm_Ouroboros Evilswarm Ouroboros]] in the first arc. He expresses regret for killing his brothers, the {{Eldritch Abomination}}s Bahamut and Ophion, and that they must face each other across the battlefield. He is also relatively accepting of the way they died in Seika's Duel against Kiyoshi, and even supplied Seika with a replacement for himself after the Summer-Winter war. Also, Evilswarm Ouroboros is one of the characters who have yet to seek vengeance or show any inclination towards violence.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Despite everything she has done, Setsuka still loves James Cook II, or Jimmy Cook. This is evident when she is implied to have [[spoiler: thrown herself into an explosion to shield Jimmy from his own explosion by Psychic power]].

''Probably'' meant as a homage to Series/{{Sherlock}}.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: for future fics, maybe. Seika just died, Chase is alive, and everything looks like Setsuka is really going to being about TheEndOfTheWorld.

** And the third arc. Dear god, the third arc. Labyrinth of Nightmare was actually one big brother (Ryuusei) trying to do his sister (Seika) right by getting rid of her enemy, Attorney Yamada. To that end, he set up a DeceasedFallGuyGambit to kill and publicly discredit Yamada Yuuta, which ended in a body count of three confirmed and two more possible murders by weird methods such as freak virus plague or exsanguination by plucking the heart out of the chest.

** Also the case with Yukio Yamada. His primary concern for demanding to kill Kiyoshi is because Kiyoshi tried to kill his twin and his cousin. Later, Chase has insight into Yukio's motivations to protect his twin brother and cousin, but find Seika lacking because he doesn't know if she can measure up to provide adequately for all three of the Yamada cousins.

** Yukio Yamada is code-named Cold Wolf. This is stylistically incorrect, because orcas, and not sharks, are the 'wolves of the sea' (Yukio plays a Shark-Gishki deck). ItMakesSenseInContext, since Yukio runs the team of Psychics responsible for hunting down rogue Psychics, and was taught personally by the Cold Queen Setsuka. His brother is code-named Hercules, for the beetle, as Yuko runs a Steelswarm deck.

* ParentalAbandonment: The series bring up the subject of Changelings, who are born between a Duel Spirit and a human being. Spirit parents (with one notable exception) tend to abandon their children for the human parent to raise, or outright treat them as slaves, until the child comes of age and Chooses to be human or to become a Duel Spirit. Since Duel Spirits, by all definitions aren't human, this also ups the SquickFactor a fair bit.

* SacrificialChild: [[spoiler: Seika.]]

* TakeYouWithMe: To some extent, Seika.

** [[spoiler: Exceptions applies at Halloween, since Setsuka was defeated (her one and only defeat) by Ryuusei on Halloween night in Boss Rush. They also apply at any place with a large concentration of Duel energy, i.e. Duelist Kingdom in the middle of a tournament]].

* WarriorPrince: Ryuusei. He did take the field against Setsuka with his own army, after all.
* TheWisePrince: Arguably, Ryuusei. In the last part of the third arc, it's clear that he did all the morally questionable things he did out of a misplaced love and misguided good intentions, and in the end he not only has to face off against both of his parents, he also lost both his friends and his adopted beloved younger sister. Setsuka also took the oppportunity to drive the stake deeper into his heart by manipulating him to believe that it was all his fault.
** Though it could be said that he wasn't very wise, since Chase pointed out that he could have avoided all of this trouble by not doing anything.

%%* XanatosSpeedChess: Between Ryuusei and Setsuka, there may always be one.

** BadassInANiceSuit / HotChickInABadassSuit: Happens quite a few times. Helps that the Arcadia Movement likes to dress its members up in undercover assignments that require socialisation. This is so important that in the first arc, there was serious debate as to what to wear to a war.

* XanatosGambit: No matter what, Setsuka has another plan ready to go. She even quotes Queen Mab from TheDresdenFiles/ColdDays

* ShoutOut: Given the author's a fan of ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' as well, this fic seems to borrow heavy influence from it, especially from certain books and characters in the series. I mean, The Table? The Unravelling? It practically follows the plot of [[TheDresdenFiles/SummerKnight a certain book]].
** The prologue opens with parts adapted from [[spoiler: TheDresdenFiles/DeadBeat]] and [[spoiler: TheDresdenFiles/BloodRites]]. WordOfGod places the series as a homage.

''Probably'' meant as a homage to {{Sherlock}}.

* ShoutOut: Given the author's a fan of TheDresdenFiles as well, this fic seems to borrow heavy influence from it, especially from certain books and characters in the series. I mean, The Table? The Unravelling? It practically follows the plot of [[TheDresdenFiles/SummerKnight a certain book]].

* ChekovsGun: [[spoiler: In the third arc, there was a lecture on the Arcadia Movement's policy with regards to the 1980 Hague Abduction Convention. It seems like extraneous information until Chapter 59, where it's revealed that one of the antagonists of that arc did what he did as revenge for his twin sister, who suffered under the laws written in by Attorney Yamada Yuuta because the Hague Convention wasn't signed by Japan, and so he was separated from his sister for about five years (since Japan is not a signatory, and so his sister wasn't returned to the father after the divorce and Mummy running off to Japan with the baby sister).]]

* '''BadAss'''

* BritPick: Fanfic/CallOfDarkness is written entirely in British English.
** With great influence by Japanese media.
*** Just call it a mishmash of languages. After all, the author is [[BilingualDialogue Singaporean]].

*** All the way from the first arc, Ichimonji being trapped by Marguerite led to his death in the first arc which was a major point in the investigation of the burglary of the Chaos Emperor Dragon case, because if Chase didn't know about Ichimonji's unwitting placement into Summer, the gambit could never have been concretely traced backed to Ryuusei.

*** Though his stance had relaxed somewhat when Seika proved herself WeakButSkilled recently, and he did keep his protests to within earshot of Seika rather than declaring public revolt or splitting the Movement to two different ideals. Yukio is savvy enough to understand the consequences of dividing the Central Movement to do so, and Seika knows that not courting his opinion is akin to causing a rift in the Movement. It still doesn't stop Yukio's presence from scaring her; Yukio is the ''only'' person Seika refers to as "Yamada-san" in her thoughts, but twin brother Yuko gets "Yuko-kun" or "Yuko" and cousin Yuuki gets "Yuuki-san" or "Yuuki-kun" or just Yuuki. This from the girl with balls enough to call Setsuka "Setsu-chan" to her face.

*** The plan was nearly derailed due to the presence of Satsuki and Setsuka at the KC Grand Prix, where Ryuusei made use of a scapegoat to provide a distraction too the Winter side. It would also have been derailed should Vanessa's guardians be brought up on charges of abuse and have to confess their story, which would reveal Vanessa' prior disappearance suspicious in the eyes of the Movement investigators, hence the freak virus plague that killed them so soon after Vanessa's infiltration. In the end, the aim was for everyone to walk away, and the mastermind went free. Justice is served, the Movement gets its prize and minus one public enemy, and KaibaCorp's blunder is overshadowed by the so-called abuse of Serena Sakumo and the whole scandal with Yamada Yuuta. Yamada Yuuta wouldn't be there to protest his innocence, as he would have died alone and unmourned.
*** It became a SpannerInTheWorks when Chase exposed his gambit in front of the Yamada twins, Seika, Rex and a few others.

* GreenEyedMonster: Michiru. In the second arc, she finds Seika's affectionate nickname of the Winter Queen 'Setsu-chan' offensive, because she herself has never gotten close to her acknowledged friend Setsuka.

*** Averted with Setsuka. She ''did'' kill people, she did torture people, but there is no evidence because she always disappeared the body. Her bad publicity is used by Arcadia Movements to cow members into submission, mostly because no one wants to die via tiny-girl death. It appears to be ''carefully cultivated'' publicity.

* HeroicBSOD: Happens in the last part of the Duelist Kingdom siege, where Ayame dies in front of Chase and Seika, and Setsuka shows no regret and only announces that it was AllAccordingToPlan.

*** The purpose of the black outer surface is quickly revealed in the first arc: They are all solar panels that are meant to convert sunlight into power. Not for everyday use, but to power the emergency defence system in the case of the Arcadia Movement being under attack. The placement of the Movement also makes sense, because it places the Movement itself at a site of social divide and therefore bridges the gap between rich and poor by making itself accessible by the upper-middle and lower-middle classes.

*** The Winter Court is known to keep about sixty-plus of these Psychics. One of them, Suiren Yukina, certainly seems happy to stay with the Winter Court.

*** Also Marguerite, the Sorciere de Fleur. Marguerite is allied with Summer, the acknowledged Warmer court. It doesn't stop her from tempting mercenaries as her personal pets, giving away power and taking it back at whim, and making ExactWords deals that happened with an unsuspecting victim.

*** Subverted in the case of the rulers: both of them are the reincarnation of former Duel Spirits.
*** Although considering the most recent interlude, we can conclude that Setsuka received this from Madame Shimotsuki from a young age.

* ThemeNaming: Some of the author-created characters have a temporal theme going on. A lot of names are grouped with a specific theme.
* TemporalThemeNaming: Summer and Winter. See above for MeaningfulName as well.
* TheDragon: Each Court, on top of having a monarch, must also have a champion that's explicitly mortal, i.e. human. Summer had Ayame Yuuki, now [[spoiler: Kisara Kaiba]]. Winter has been represented by Satsuki Kujaku since the beginning.
* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Setsuka and Seika. Setsuka turned into what she was because of essentially eight years or so of the Arcadia Movement, and even more with the Winter Court. Seika tries, but her own emotions are noted to be very expressive and that Yukio, one of the people within the Movement with the greatest grassroots backing, has open doubts about her ability to lead. Part of the subplot of Fanfic/CallOfDarkness is basically Seika and the Movement struggling along in the wake of Setsuka's disappearance.

*** This was commented upon by an interlude written by his own mother, who noted all of the accidents that seemed to follow her son throughout his life.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: FromACertainPointOfView, Setsuka.

** The prologue opens with parts adapted from [[spoiler: TheDresdenFiles/DeadBeat]] and [[spoiler: TheDresdenFiles/BloodRites]].
*** WordOfGod places the series as a homage.

*** The author frankly has no comment about human sexuality in general, but the gay is hardly ever played up, though there is only one canonically straight couple right now: Jimmy and Setsuka.
*** Ryuusei has been chased by both guys and girls, and they've all died horrible deaths by being near him. We assume that for now he's sworn off dating.
* TheWisePrince: Arguably, Ryuusei. In the last part of the third arc, it's clear that he did all the morally questionable things he did out of a misplaced love and misguided good intentions, and in the end he not only has to face off against both of his parents, he also lost both his friends and his adopted beloved younger sister. Setsuka also took the oppportunity to drive the stake deeper into his heart by manipulating him to believe that it was all his fault.
** Though it could be said that he wasn't very wise, since Chase pointed out that he could have avoided all of this trouble by not doing anything.

*** Heck, Ryuusei Fudo started his gig on the Summer King (not by choice) at eighteen, and had yet to graduate then.
* SacrificialChild: [[spoiler: Seika.]]
* OpenEndedEnding: Ended on one.
* NotSoBad: Setsuka and Ryuusei came to take her away.
* GirlScream: At the end.
* BigDamnHeroes: Nearly everyone. Even Madas the ButtMonkey.
* PragmaticVillain: Shion tried to pull one. Seika killed him. Yes, you read that right.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: for future fics, maybe. Seika just died, Chase is alive, and everything looks like Setsuka is really going to being about TheEndOfTheWorld.
* TakeYouWithMe: To some extent, Seika.
* StarCrossedLovers: Hinted to be [[spoiler: Yukio/Seika]], but one died.
* UnrequitedTragicMaiden: Seika.
* IGotBetter: Not forthcoming.

* BlessedWithSuck: On the surface, having Psychic powers tend to be fantastic. You can summon monsters, you can destroy objects with holograms, you're a living weapon by yourself... until you realise that, not only do Psychics still face fear and hate and discrimination in some ways, and that 30% of all abandonment and abuse cases in Neo Domino itself stem from Psychic Duelists being involved one way or another.
*** It's explained as a misunderstanding that Psychics hurt everyone and destroy everything around them, but the Movement has proven that there is an inherent choice in Psychic Dueling. So it's really a lot of misplaced hate and fear. The Arcadia Rights Bill does something to help, but it also effectively places all Psychics under the debt of the Movement and Neo Domino City itself. See CursedWithAwesome below too.

*** The Summer mantle is hinted to promote rage, feelings and pride, as well as warm feelings. The winter mantle is hinted to promote viciousness, cruelty and hate, as well as a certain Spock mentality. After Ryuusei's FaceHeelTurn, it somehow became even darker when you realise that Ryuusei might not be in full control of his faculties anymore, or was even thinking straight when he played a whole XanatosGambit for Seika's sake.

*** Recently, we've seen Seika's view of the events on which Setsuka cast Seika off to the Fudo family, and it reads a lot like the real daughter of the household finally throwing out the pitiful adopted one who usurped the parents' affections away. Knowing the multiple aims by which Setsuka's [[XanatosGambit Xanatos Gambits]] are marked with, we can probably assume that her aims weren't purely altruistic when she was about ten years old.

* XanatosGambit: Setsuka certainly exemplifies this trope. No matter what, she has another plan ready to go. She even quotes Queen Mab from TheDresdenFiles/ColdDays.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Between Ryuusei and Setsuka, there may always be one.

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* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Hazuki and Uzuki are redheads, Setsuka and Seika are brunettes. Satsuki is blonde, by virtue of having Katsuya Jounochi and Mai Kujaku as her grandparents. Michiru has black hair, when she doesn't bother to dye it.

** ''Thousand-Eyes Bible'' is slated to be beliefs: what kind of beliefs should influence policy and how those beliefs come into play upon politics. Also has a sort of ends-justify-means debate.

** In the first arc, Seika received Number 39: King of Wishes, Hope (or Utopia, for those playing TCG). It soon became one of her most-seen aces. This card is slated to be important in the future, what with Setsuka relating a story about the Numbers and their relation to [[SealedEvilInACan Pandora's Box]].

'''Arc the Fourth: Thousand-Eyes Bible''' is currently ongoing.

*** Heck, Ryuusei Fudo started his gig on the Summer King (not by choice) at eighteen, and had yet to graduate then.

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** BadassFamily: Diana Hunter, or Madam Seiran Shimotsuki, is a Psychic Duelist who is still respected ten years after her death. She also killed over 200 gang members in an event which would be known as the White Witch Massacre. Rafael is, canonically, the only guy who has ever managed to corner and defeat the [[YuGiOh Pharaoh]]. Both of them got married, and it resulted in Setsuka Shimotsuki.

** The Arcadia Movement headquarters, also known as the Castle, or La Castle, had been rebuilt since its canonical destruction by [[{{YuGiOh5Ds}} a giant hummingbird]]. Seika described it as : 'placed between the rich Tops district and the rather run-down Daimon Area, exactly where the original was established. It is barely a skyscraper. The outside of the building was black stone, some panels polished smooth as mirrors, some panels craggy as cliffs, some etched with symbols and esoteric art. The main entrance itself was dominated by an arch of black marble, which, if you looked at it right you would see the mica gleaming from reflected light like so many stars in the night sky'.

** Played straight in the case of Yukio. Although he and his twin brother Yuko founded the Knights of Arcadia support group, Yukio is arguably the more terrifying of the two. Maybe because he was the only student of Shimotsuki Setsuka. Yukio is also plenty terrifying on his own, but being trained by the in-universe CompleteMonster really does wonders for his own reputation.

* HeroWithBadPublicity: The Arcadia Movement. Several of Attorney Yamada's issues with the Movement stem from their heavy involvement with the police, their stance on child abuse and rights of the child versus family law of Japan (explored a bit in the third arc), and the occasional Psychic that actually loses their shit and blow up a building or two. Also that their former leader was a child with a kill count second to [[CompleteMonster Divine]], but the good lawyer never brings it up.